Migrant blocked from deportation in 2020 went on to MURDER in horrific knife attack
Ernesto Elliott was due to be deported in 2020 before he brutally murdered a man six months later
Metropolitan Police
A migrant saved from deportation following legal challenges by Labour MPs and celebrities went on to commit murder in a horror knife attack, it has been revealed
Ernesto Elliott was due to leave Britain in December 2020, but dodged efforts to remove him.
In June 2021, six months after he was supposed to be removed from the country, Elliott murdered a 35-year-old man.
Elliott was sentenced to at least 26 years in prison following the eight-minute confrontation which police say caused “significant trauma” for onlookers.
His son Nico Elliott was sentenced to 22 years a concurrent sentence of 10 years' imprisonment for robbery
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He was due to board a flight back to Jamacia on December 2 after being convicted of knife crime.
But Elliott and 22 other serious criminals submitted last-minute appeals – including human rights claims – which led to them avoiding deportation.
A total of 23 criminals had been sentenced to a combined 156 years in jail as their appeals came after 60 celebrities and authors signed an open letter opposing the flight.
They included supermodel Naomi Campbell, Line Of Duty star Thandiwe Newton, James Bond actress Naomie Harris and historian David Olusoga, alongside various Labour MPs.
On June 2, 2021 Elliott and his son Nico, 23, Elliott robbed and murdered Nathaniel Eyewu-Ago in a row over drugs.
Eyewu-Ago collapsed after being stabbed through the heart and died in hospital six days later.
Nico Elliott was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 22 years and a concurrent sentence of 10 years' imprisonment for robbery.
Priti Patel, who oversaw the attempt to remove Elliott when she supervised the Home Office, said the case showed why it was crucial to challenge “do-gooders” who try to block deportations.
Suella Braverman has condemned the decision not to deport Elliott
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“This case is exactly why we must continue to defy the protestations from the Labour Party, the do-gooding celebrities and immigration lawyers and remove convicted foreign criminals, rapists, murders, child abusers and drug dealers who have no right to be in this country,” she said.
Home Office Secretary Suella Braverman echoed Patel and also condemned Labour MPs who blocked his removal.
She said: “This murderer should have been deported on a flight out of this country in 2020.
"But the courts blocked his removal after dozens of Labour MPs cried out it was an injustice. So much for their pledge to keep Britain’s streets safe.”